Video: Recording ZBrush movies

You can record movies of your ZBrush sessions. This is a great way to watch how you work and also share some of your working methods with other users. To do this, you can use the controls in the Movie palette. So I'm going to expand this menu and put it over in the tray. I now have my female_v01 loaded on the canvas. This is something to experiment with. So in the Movie palette, you will find the controls that determine the type of movie that you are going to record. If I hit Record, it's going to record essentially what I'm doing in ZBrush while I'm doing it. If I record a Turntable, this will record essentially the model rotating around and that's the great way to create model reels for showing of some of your work.

Pixologic's ZBrush 3 stands at the forefront of digital 3D sculpting and 2.5D painting, a new medium that is taking the art and entertainment worlds by storm. Visual effects artist Eric Keller shares his expertise and talents in ZBrush 3 for Windows Essential Training. He presents the concepts behind digital sculpting, shows how to produce fantastic images using the unique ZBrush toolset and interface, and demonstrates the power of the Digital Clay and Sculpting brushes. To offer a richer understanding of the application, Eric gives a guided tour of the interface and addresses the most common problems experienced by new users. Exercise files accompany the course.

Recording ZBrush movies

You can record movies of your ZBrush sessions. This is a great way to watch howyou work and also share some of your working methods with other users. To dothis, you can use the controls in the Movie palette. So I'm going to expandthis menu and put it over in the tray. I now have my female_v01 loaded on thecanvas. This is something to experiment with.So in the Movie palette, you will find the controls that determine the type ofmovie that you are going to record. If I hit Record, it's going to recordessentially what I'm doing in ZBrush while I'm doing it. If I record aTurntable, this will record essentially the model rotating around and that'sthe great way to create model reels for showing of some of your work.

TimeLapse record on regular time intervals, if it is going to be long sessionthis is a great way to record a bit more efficiency. It is also a cool way towatch a model evolve over time. I can use these buttons to determine what'sgoing to be recorded, whether it is going to be the canvas or the document whenI see in this area or the Window which is the entire ZBrush Interface. And thenof course these, will reduce the size of the movie which can also reduce theamount of space it takes upon your disk; Large is 100%, medium is half and thisis a quarter.

There is a couple of modifiers you can add a logo, by default there is theZBrush logo. This sets the position of the logo and the opacity, and this isthe Title image that appears in the title page. We have two sliders todetermine how long the title page is displayed in the movie - two seconds toFadeIn and two seconds to FadeOut at the end. And then I can add custom text,so I have typed female head sculpt. You can call it anything you want just bytyping in this area and choose the font size. Once you have your settings theway you like them, you just hit record to start recording the movie. So as I'mworking in here, maybe I will take the Move brush, start making large changesto the sculpture, change the character.

Okay, I can pause the movie and then play it back and see how it has recordedso far. You can see it is playing back at about twice the speed. Now the movieis going to stay in a buffer essentially and every time I record a movie, it'sgoing to add to that original movie. So, if I start to record some more, it'sgoing to add that new recording to everything that I have just recorded andit's going to keep doing this until I hit the Delete button which will deleteeverything that has been saved in the buffer. If we just want to record asingle movie remember to delete anything that's already been recorded but ifyou want to do very simple form of editing you can just continually add to whatyou have recorded and then finally you can save the movie in the special ZMVformat to your local disk or you can export it as a QucikTime and there aresome basic compression controls when you export as well.

So, that's basics of recording a movie in the ZBrush Interface. It's, kind of,fun thing to do to is to watch yourself work you can see where you needimprovement, what your habits are and also of course the things you dobrilliantly.

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